🌳 Across the Atlantic Forest, at a broad-scale, seed rain patterns in 52 fragments were evaluated. While seed density increased with fragmentation, rainfall and forest cover were the main drivers of seed rain diversity, highlighting habitat amount as key to forest regeneration 👉️ buff.ly/g2bgrRK

New paper out @currentbiology.bsky.social! Led by Clara Wild we show that restoring heterogeneity in forests increases bat and bird diversity. 🧪🍁 Interestingly mechanisms differ between taxa 🐦🦇 and diversity facets. @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @betafor.bsky.social

new article at @waldwissen.bsky.social : Tree-species mixtures reduce the risk of biotic damage and increase the resilience of forest stands. Preventive silvicultural management of stands plays a key role; @wslresearch.bsky.social; @swissforestlab.bsky.social www.waldwissen.net/en/forestry/...

New paper out today @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Toby Jackson and Lucy Beese shows the profound impact that liana cutting has on the structural recovery of logged tropical forests 📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Hurray - new paper out in Functional Ecology! @funecology.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social 
Wild large herbivores promote plant diversity and functional redundancy by reducing dominance: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/5

Europe's forests are under pressure - elevated mortality & lower growth. New work by Jessie Foest sheds new light on the response of forest reproduction - seed production is declining too. Obvious question is what this means for regeneration & the future of forests? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution from a temperate forest landscape in Germany shows that a single year of tree responses to intense insect herbivory can counteract a decade of environmentally driven shifts in spring phenology. go.nature.com/4uASGMU 🌍🧪

The first pantropical paper of the PANTROP project pantrop-eu.com is a fact! In a study led by Tomonari Matsuo published in Global Change Biology lnkd.in/eJy_Jrgb we show that (see below)

🌱Study reveals how competition drives dynamic shifts in plant traits, with species becoming more similar aboveground and diverging in root traits. Findings suggest that complementary trait shifts reduce competition & facilitate coexistence👉️ buff.ly/lZQoZvp

Paper published, led by Forest Isbell. We developed a new theoretical framework to predict how temporal stability and resilience emerge from the combined effects of resistance and recovery. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ökophysiologisch fundierte Waldbewirtschaftung ist kein Rezept, sondern ein Denkmuster: Wer versteht, warum Bäume bei Hitze und Dürre absterben, kann Massnahmen gezielt an Schwachstellen ausrichten @waldwissen.bsky.social : www.waldwissen.net/de/waldwirts...

🚨 New BE paper on #forest #microclimates!🌲 Across 11 years and 149 plots in Germany, variability was driven mainly by precipitation and outside temperatures -not by low- to medium-intensity timber harvest. #Climate extremes may pose the greatest #biodiversity risk.🌐 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌿A century of vegetation change in temperate mountain forests shows that shifts in plant diversity were driven mainly by the cessation of human management, not by recent climate changes🌲 #ForestEcology #GlobalChange 👉️ buff.ly/zB0SyRJ

Da Vinci’s mischief: xylem conduits in the stems of woody plants do not furcate Alemán-Sancheschúlz et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very interesting study challenging previous estimates of the magnitude of C storage difference between boreal primary forests and managed secondary forests in Europe.

Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon - Europe’s landscapes for 23 Myr were mostly tree- & flower-rich mosaics shaped by large herbivores, not dense #forests, see our new synthesis www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #forests #woodlands #paleoecology #nature #trees #refiorestation

🔊Probably already one of my top 10 papers this year: @leoniegass.bsky.social compiled for 28 tree species high resolution forest regeneration maps across Germany from inventory data! 14.3% of forests have low regeneration density, 30.4% has low species richness 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Suzanne Stas leads this new analysis of long-term impacts of selective logging on tropical forests. In Vietnam, intense logging shifted forest communities towards lighter-wood trees and depleted focal species, reducing both carbon storage and timber potential. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Together with @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social & @monicagturner.bsky.social, we synthesized studies on post-disturbance forest reorganization. Key insight: Self-replacement is common across biomes, i.e., disturbances act as catalysts of change only under specific conditions doi.org/10.1111/geb....

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

In Central Europe, forest management shapes post-disturbance recovery mostly through what’s left behind (disturbance legacies 🪵🌱) than impacting forest growth rates 📈 + Set-aside forests regrow canopy height as fast as managed forests New paper out in ForEcolMngt 🌳 doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

Ecophysiology for climate-smart forest management #TansleyReview by Gessler et al. @wslresearch.bsky.social @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social @annekempel.bsky.social @josegruenzweig.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Another PhD opportunity, joint project with colleagues from Prague on the future of beech in the Ore Mountains funded by the EU Interreg program. If you are interested in the effect of thinning and forest structure on high-resolution tree growth responses, see here: tu-dresden.de/stellenaussc....

We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in community ecology to work in the Arthropods Core Project of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social Reposting is much appreciated for widest reach! Thanks. More information here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci #PlantDispersal issue 🌱 Animal-mediated seed dispersal: A review of study methods (by @noellebeckman.bsky.social, @jmbecologist.bsky.social, et al) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #zoochory #PlantEcology #SeedDispersal

As climate and disturbance regimes change, forest reorganization is key to maintain the forest carbon sink. Great new work led by @christinadollinger.bsky.social w/ @monicagturner.bsky.social, @akkym.bsky.social and many others. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 It doesn't take much canopy disturbance in tropical forests to push surface temperatures above the thermal limits of many invertebrate groups. 🦋+🪲💩+🪱🧛‍♂️+ 🐜 Led by the wonderful Mike Boyle! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Increasing tree mortality over time in Australian forests www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Central Europe has seen unprecedented forest disturbances recently, but how are forests recovering? We surveyed disturbance hotspots in 10 countries 3-5 years after disturbance, finding ample tree regeneration and no signs of forest loss (median 4750 stems/ha), but... 1/2 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

New paper by @albavianasoto.bsky.social and @corneliussenf.bsky.social on forest reburns in southern Europe, published in Glob. Ecol. and Biogeography🌲🔥 Highlight: 30.1% of burned forest area experiencing multiple fire events since 1985. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

📖Published! Biodiversity enhances the positive effect of structural diversity on forest productivity and indirectly boosts productivity through structural diversity🌍 However, environmental stressors weaken the positive impact of structural diversity🐘 🔎 buff.ly/Uooe1rC

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows the long-term changes in tree species diversity across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon. go.nature.com/45FPc1M 🌍 🧪

Can tropical rainforests 🌴🌎🇪🇨 regain their structural complexity in 40 years? Yes! Shown by @martinehbrecht.bsky.social et al. in their new article in @journalofecology.bsky.social www.reassembly.de/news/recover...

🌳🌴The various regions of the tropics differ in terms of the overall diversity of #tree species, but the relationship between environmental variables and local tree species richness is very similar across the different continents. #rainforest #biodiversity #forests

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⚠️ New paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🌱 #Grasslands #SoilCarbon @natecoevo.nature.com

Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fascinating new paper by @andrewabraham.bsky.social on how salt starvation shapes the abundance of large animals in Africa - the thread below explains the science … 🌐

1/28 New preprint up, which I think is the best theoretical idea I've ever had. We asked a simple question: what are the costs of investment into non-reproductive somatic cells? Turns out these costs decrease with the *logarithm* of organism size! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Interestingly, this vegetation structure fits the ecological requirements of European forest plants - see our study Temperate forest plants are associated with heterogeneous semi-open canopy conditions shaped by large herbivores www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌸🌿🐎

Our best estimate of Europe's "forest" structure prior to the #megafauna #extinctions: Temperate Europe had high local #vegetation heterogeneity, on average 17% open vegetation, 21% closed #forest & 63% light #woodland ➡️https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000061 #TIBS2026

New paper - and final PhD chapter of @lisa-mandl.bsky.social - published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Using Landsat recovery and meteorological data, we show that thermal limitations constrain post-disturbance recovery success across forests of the European Alps: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

In C Europe, there is a push to align forest management more closely with natural processes, but is this "closer-to-nature" management able to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services? Great synthesis led by @anastritih.bsky.social with input from many leading experts! doi.org/10.1007/s407...

Der Klimawandel lässt Bäume früher austreiben, doch Hitze und Trockenheit bremsen das Wachstum. Besonders betroffen: Fichten, Weisstannen und Buchen. 🌳☀️https://www.wsl.ch/de/news/waelder-unter-klimastress-warum-baeume-trotz-fruehstart-weniger-wachsen #Klimawandel #Trockenstress

Worldwide, larger trees suffer most following extreme drought, which likewise seems to apply to European beech in response to the exceptional 2018/19 drought, see here: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo.... Great work by @jsrieder.bsky.social as part of her DFG-funded PhD project BEECHDECLINE.

Published!📖 Forest structural and functional diversity can attenuate forest productivity losses after harvesting and fires. In undisturbed forests, dominance boosts productivity via selection effects, but not after harvesting🌳🌲🌍 Read here:https://buff.ly/Gw5Hq6X

Published!📖 This study shows that choosing the most effective restoration strategy for tropical forests at scale depends equally if not more on economic and logistical than ecological constraints. Read more:https://buff.ly/MTipuln